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in the streets

in the streets prepositional phrase: aroused, agitated, or incited to widespread protest, to civil disorder, or to revolution.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (idiomatic) Aroused, agitated, or incited to widespread protest, to civil disorder, or to revolution.
    • Near-synonym: up in arms
    • The people will be in the streets if the policymakers allow hyperinflation to happen.
    Synonyms:
    up in arms
  2. (figuratively) In the daily life of the general public.
    • Near-synonyms: on the street, on the ground, in the field
    • blood in the streets
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see in, the, streets.
    • There was flooding in the streets between the riverfront and the viaduct.

Synonyms of in the streets

Questions about in the streets

What does in the streets mean?
In the streets means aroused, agitated, or incited to widespread protest, to civil disorder, or to revolution.
What part of speech is in the streets?
In the streets is a prepositional phrase.

Words near in the streets in the dictionary

  1. in the spotlight
  2. in the stars
  3. in the stead of
  4. in the stratosphere
  5. in the straw
  6. in the streets
  7. in the swim
  8. in the swim of things
  9. in the tank
  10. in the teeth of
  11. in the thick of

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